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In East Mayo: A Community Where Past is Prologue

℘℘℘ The words were painted high on a whitewashed brick wall, just above a red and green Mayo flag flapping in the wind.  MELLETT’S DRINKING EMPORIUM  ESTB 1797 “Is it true?” I ask my friend, a lifelong Swinford resident. “Mellett’s has been in business since 1797?” “Nearly as old as the town itself,” he tells me as I push the pub door open. “And the same family has owned it the whole time.”   I’ve been visiting Swinford – and Mellett’s – for more than two decades, but somehow I was just now appreciating how long both have been around. I first came to this quaint East Mayo town in 1998 when I was living in Galway and found myself in a circle of Swinford friends. Occasionally I’d tag along on their trips home, hitchhiking north along the N17, passing through Tuam, Claremorris, and Knock before being dropped off outside Campbell’s Lounge on the corner of Bridge and Main streets. 

The GAA played a game with our identity – it s time it admitted as much

That surely put Eusebio and Beckenbauer in their place. But the ban was representative of a broader nationalist narrative that hadn’t changed much since independence, based on the odd idea that there could only be one, narrow version of Irishness. It’s still fertile in one particular political party and a notion that can gather up votes at election time. The GAA was really telling minorities, Protestants amongst others, that if you want to belong you best give up on your own culture, games and pastimes. The ban was, in a word, sectarian. Not only was it shabby and shameful but the ban didn’t work either. Soccer, for instance, despised by official Ireland as the ‘shoneen’ game and shunned in schools for much of the 20th century, is now the most played sport in the country.

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